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Translation

trait, characteristic; feature (of the face)

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Word origin

From French trait, from Latin tractus, the past participle of trahere ('to draw, to pull'). A trait is a line drawn, which is why the same word does duty for a feature of a face and a feature of a character.

Origin
French
Root
tractus
English cognates
trait, tract, portray, retract

Examples

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Patience is her best trait.

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I do not remember the features of his face.

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That characteristic is common to all cats.

Two senses, and they are worth keeping apart. A of a person is a characteristic, something in the character: . The of a face are its features, the lines of it, which is the older and more literal reading of a word that means "a drawn line". Karaktero is the whole disposition; a is one strand of it.

and trajno are not related in any way you can use. Both are borrowed roots that happen to begin traj-, and neither contains a piece the other does. Very far back they do share the Latin trahere, "to draw", since a train is a thing drawn along and a trait is a line drawn, but that is etymology for its own sake: in Esperanto they are two unanalysable roots and knowing one tells you nothing about the other.

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This word is taught in chapter 19, lesson 11: trajto, ruliĝi, infekti and 7 more words.